CVE-2020-16117 (GCVE-0-2020-16117)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2020-07-29 17:59 – Updated: 2024-08-04 13:37
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Summary
In GNOME evolution-data-server before 3.35.91, a malicious server can crash the mail client with a NULL pointer dereference by sending an invalid (e.g., minimal) CAPABILITY line on a connection attempt. This is related to imapx_free_capability and imapx_connect_to_server.
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